Monday, February 1, 2010
The Most Bizarre Street Names
Do you think that your street has a weird and unusual name? After seeing those photos you’ll probably be happy when you see what is really weird street name.
weird street name.
Imagine that you’re a little schoolboy and teacher asks you in which street do you live and you have to answer that your street is named Psycho Pat or Relief Land. What about Wrong Way or Divorce street?
But there are also some weird but cool street names. For example, Flickr Street should be really cool name in these days. But you definitely do not want to live in that Penis Road.
Imagine that you’re a little schoolboy and teacher asks you in which street do you live and you have to answer that your street is named Psycho Pat or Relief Land. What about Wrong Way or Divorce street?
But there are also some weird but cool street names. For example, Flickr Street should be really cool name in these days. But you definitely do not want to live in that Penis Road.
Creative Teapots Which Will Make Your Morning Bright
If you live in United Kingdom then you might know how it is boring to drink a tea every day from very same cups and teapots. Drinking a tea from a piano-shaped kettle or that clock kettle is really a different experience. Here you can see the images of incredibly unusual and creative teapots which eventually could make your morning more entertaining.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
New Year Celebrations Videos Around The World..2010
New Year Celebrations Videos Around The World..2010
Dubai - UAE
Pakistan
Moscow
Newzealand
Sydney - Australia
London
China
Milano albero
Highest Glass Floor of the World
Not content with having the tallest building in America , the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.
The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck.
Floating on air: Visitors get their first view from The Ledge, four glass balconies suspended from the 103rd floor of Chicago 's Sears Tower
Designers say the platforms - collectively dubbed The Ledge - have been purposely designed to make visitors feel as they are floating above the city.
The reward is unobstructed views of Chicago from the building's west side and a heart-stopping vista of the street and Chicago River below - for those brave enough to look straight down.
'It's like walking on ice,' visitor Margaret Kemp, from Bishop, California said. 'The first step you take you think "Am I going down?"'
'At first I was kind of afraid but I got used to it,' 10-year-old Adam Kane from Alton , Illinois , said as clouds drifted by below.
'Look at all those tiny things that are usually huge.'
John Huston, one of the owners of the Sears Tower , even admitted to getting 'a little queasy' the first time he ventured out on to the balcony. However, after 30 or 40 trips, he seems to have got used to it.
Thrillseekers: The boxes jut out four feet from the building and were specifically designed to make visitors feel as if they are floating
'The Sears Tower has always been about superlatives - tallest, largest, most iconic,' he said.
'The Ledge is the world's most awesome view, the world's most precipitous view, the view with the most wow in the world.'
The balconies are 10ft high and 10ft wide, can hold five tons, and have glass which is 1.5 inch thick.
Unfazed: Although some adults felt dizzy after experiencing the Ledge, children seemed to take it in their stride
Long way up: Even the floor of the platforms are glass - few were brave enough to look straight down
Inspiration came from the hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind on Skydeck windows every week. Now, staff will have a new glass surface to clean: floors.
Architect Ross Wimer said: 'We did studies that showed a four-foot-deep (1.2 metres) enclosure makes you feel like you're floating since there's only room for one row of people, not two.'
The Skydeck attracts 25,000 visitors on clear days. They each pay $15 to take an elevator ride up to the 103rd floor of the 110-story office building that opened in 1973.
Towering: A view of the Sears Tower (black building in the foreground). The Ledge is on the 103rd floor
Monday, December 14, 2009
Top 7 Finalists of Miss World 2009
The fabulous collection of top 7 Finalist Models of Miss World 2009 Contest
Miss Canada
Miss Colombia
Miss France
Miss Gibraltar
Miss Mexico
Miss Panama
